The Atlantic accuses me of underplaying the brutality and evil of slavery, even though my series tells you much more about the horrors of slavery than any other outlet will ever will. Today on the Matt Warshaw Show, I discuss why The Atlantic thinks I m a racist.
00:05:44.000Instead, the episode is roughly an hour long, and it's a look at what slavery entailed all over the world.
00:05:52.000And yes, as a matter of historical fact, Africans and the Barbary pirates and the Ottomans generally treated their slaves far, far worse than Americans and American colonists.
00:07:55.000So let's read on from their review of the show that they didn't watch.
00:07:59.000Back in March, Trump strong-armed a host of institutions by issuing an executive order called Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,
00:08:07.000which directs federally funded museums, monuments, and parks to remove materials that promote corrosive ideology.
00:08:12.000Last month, the Park Service obliged, eliminating an outdoor exhibit at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia,
00:08:19.000where George Washington's house once stood.
00:08:21.000The exhibit honored nine slaves who toiled at the residence.
00:08:24.000Trump and his allies seem unwilling to tolerate virtually any acknowledgement that America subjugated black people.
00:08:30.000Rather than making a dispassionate case against the idea that our country was founded to enslave Africans,
00:08:35.000MAGA is taking down plaques commemorating basic facts such as Washington's slaveholding.
00:08:41.000And real history, Walsh turns the clock back further still.
00:08:44.000So you notice the sleight of hand trick that they're pulling here.
00:08:48.000They're strongly implying that the Trump administration ordered the Park Service to remove an exhibit,
00:08:53.000which references the fact that George Washington owned slaves.
00:09:17.000The removals were in line with President Donald Trump's March executive order directing the Interior Department to eliminate information that reflects a corrosive ideology that disparages historic Americans.
00:09:28.000National Park Service officials are broadly interpreting that directive to implied information on racism, sexism, slavery, gay rights or persecution of indigenous people.
00:09:41.000The Trump administration issues an order telling agencies to stop advancing an anti-white, anti-American agenda.
00:09:48.000Democrats then remove displays of slavery, which they were never told to do.
00:09:53.000And then Democrats say, hey, you made us remove displays of slavery.
00:09:57.000And because they chose to interpret it that way.
00:10:00.000And by the way, it's especially ironic that they lump real history in with all this.
00:10:06.000Again, if this guy had watched the show, which he clearly hasn't, he'd know that we talk at some length about Washington's slaves.
00:10:15.000And in particular, we talk about his white indentured servants who ran away around the time of the start of the Revolutionary War.
00:10:21.000Washington put out advertisements seeking the return of those white runaways.
00:10:27.000And there were many more white runaways than black runaways at Washington's estate.
00:10:31.000But no one at the Atlantic wants to talk about that because it complicates their narrative that only blacks were victimized by slavery in America, which isn't true.
00:10:42.000And then they accuse us of, you know, being the ones who are hiding the truth.
00:10:47.000Now, what's funny about all this is that back in 2019, the Atlantic put out an article stating that reparations could mean telling the truth about uncomfortable historical facts.
00:10:58.000So in that sense, if you took them at their word, you'd think that they'd be happy about real history.
00:11:04.000You think they'd consider it a form of reparations, maybe.
00:11:07.000But apparently not, because in reality, like the Atlantic, like so many other bastions of left wing intellectualism, quote unquote, is collapsing in on itself.
00:11:19.000Their ideology is incoherent. They have no idea what they stand for or how to construct even the most basic argument about anything or for anything they believe in.
00:11:30.000This is a big, big problem for the left in general. And in that vein, here's a little factoid that's going to be memory hold immediately.
00:11:39.000This year's Munich Security Conference was supposed to mark the debut of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the new leader of the intellectual vanguard of the Democrat Party.
00:11:50.000This was intended to be her big moment, her global debut, her opportunity to prove to the world that she has transformed into a serious, thoughtful political leader.
00:12:01.000No longer does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believe that climate change will kill everybody before the decade is over.
00:12:07.000That's the old AOC. The new AOC imagines a very different future, one with, well, herself sitting in the Oval Office in three years.
00:12:16.000And that's why before the Munich Security Conference began, the Washington Post ran an article about AOC's upcoming appearance at the conference.
00:12:24.000And in this article, the Post revealed that a heavy hitter named Matt Duss, who serves as the executive vice president of something called the Center for International Policy, had secured a role, quote, advising Ocasio-Cortez's debut in Munich.
00:12:38.000So this preparation has been going on for months. According to Duss, AOC, quote, brings an understanding of the way that oligarchy and corruption are part of the problem in our foreign policy and have been for a long time.
00:12:51.000So the expectations were sky high. Sandy Cortez was going to Munich, where she would publicly respond to the keynote address by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in front of dozens of the most high-ranking, important diplomats in the world.
00:13:04.740AOC was going to set the record straight. She was going to outline the worldview of the modern left and present a compelling case for why voters should choose the Democrat Party and her.
00:13:16.540And with that in mind, here's how her appearance got started.
00:13:23.700It is not a remark on who Maduro was as a leader. He canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic leader.
00:13:32.100That doesn't mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator.
00:13:40.320So we only took out Maduro in Venezuela because of the location of its country, which is south of the equator.
00:13:52.600That's how bigoted and idiotic we are.
00:13:56.160And, you know, that makes a lot of sense as long as you never get anywhere close to a map, which apparently AOC has not.
00:14:02.360Because if you make the mistake of looking at a map, here's what you will find, as you can see here.
00:14:07.420You don't need to be a cartographer to understand the issue with what AOC has claimed.
00:14:13.400You see, Venezuela is, in fact, above. It is north of the equator.
00:14:18.900And somehow, for all of her extensive foreign policy prep, months in the making,
00:14:24.160no one ever informed AOC of this very problematic fact.
00:14:29.820They also seem to have told her that Maduro canceled elections when the official complaint is that he rigged them, didn't cancel them.
00:14:35.000But, you know, let's focus on one thing at a time here.
00:14:38.320But it gets worse the more you listen.
00:14:39.980So here's AOC responding to a point that Marco Rubio made during his speech at the Munich conference.
00:15:15.540I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African enslaved peoples would like to have a word on that.
00:15:26.900So there are just so many layers to the stupidity here.
00:15:33.100It's like a stupid, it's an onion of idiocy that you peel back with AOC, as always.
00:15:37.640First of all, her name, and this will never stop being ironic and funny, her name is, as you know, Cortez.
00:15:47.280So she shares a name with the Spanish conquistador who brought horses to Mexico in 1519, returning horses to the Americas for the first time in 10,000 years.
00:15:58.480And yet she's apparently under the impression that cowboys, who, you know, of course, ride on horses, that's part of the thing of being a cowboy, have nothing whatsoever to do with Spain.
00:16:09.880Or she's implying that somehow there could have been cowboys here in the Americas before the Spanish showed up.
00:16:18.600So there were cowboys here before there were horses.
00:19:08.760Culture, for the entire history of human civilization, has been a fluid, evolving thing that is a response to the conditions that we live in.
00:19:18.620And so they want to take this mantle of culture, at the end of the day, though, is, you know, it is very thin.
00:19:29.380And so the response that we have to have is, again, it's material, it's class-based, it's common interest.
00:19:38.680So this is textbook Marxism filtered through the brain of a very dumb cocktail waitress.
00:19:43.660And if you think about it for 10 seconds, it makes no sense.
00:19:45.820She's saying that culture doesn't really amount to anything more than class differences.
00:20:00.020How can you appropriate something if it doesn't mean anything?
00:20:02.120Or even if you could appropriate it, wouldn't it mean that cultural appropriation doesn't matter?
00:20:05.660Because that also is thin and meaningless.
00:20:07.920But, you know, we can't look for consistency here.
00:20:10.440But she says all the traditions and laws and accomplishments and architecture and scientific breakthroughs dating back thousands of years are nothing compared to class.
00:20:19.060All that matters is how many material possessions you have and how much money is in your bank account.
00:20:24.120Now, putting aside how cynical and depressing that kind of thinking is, does that sound right to you?
00:20:29.720Let's run a little thought experiment here, hypothetically.
00:20:32.240Say you're a middle class American making, you know, 70 grand a year.
00:20:37.860Who do you think you have more in common with?
00:20:41.160An American executive making a million dollars a year or a middle class family in North Korea earning the equivalent of $70,000 a year?
00:20:50.680If you got stuck in an elevator with the American executive, well, you could, would you have trouble communicating with this person?
00:20:58.160Or would there be things you can relate to each other?
00:20:59.940You could talk about politics or what's going on in social media, what's going on in the culture.
00:21:05.360We'll talk about the NFL, talk about entertainment.
00:21:07.280You could talk about your Christmas vacations or your plans for Mardi Gras.
00:21:11.120You could share Instagram photos and so on.
00:21:13.280I mean, if you're really chatty in the elevator, I'm not, but maybe if you, maybe you are.
00:21:17.480But if you got stuck in an elevator with a middle class North Korean, you couldn't talk about any of those topics because they can't understand a word you're saying.
00:21:25.600But even if they could understand the language, it would be awfully difficult to talk about Christmas and Mardi Gras with someone living in an atheist state.
00:21:33.520It'd be hard to talk about politics or social media to someone who's been raised from childhood to trust dear leader who instantly banned all social media in the country.
00:21:40.880But this, again, is the new thought leader of the Democrat Party, the person who wants you to believe that you have more in common with someone on the other side of the world in a foreign country who doesn't even speak your language if they make an equivalent amount of money to you, if your income is roughly the same.
00:21:59.160This is the logic that's going to drive the party going forward.
00:22:05.500So it's noteworthy that every time she opened her mouth, every time she tried to outline this ideology, AOC fell on her face.
00:22:37.880These are rich cultural heritages that are based on values, and they are so much a part of what make our cultures and our societies what they are.
00:22:51.900Well, it's pretty incredible to watch because AOC will, she doesn't believe anything she just said, and none of these people do.
00:23:02.860Because AOC will insist that brown people are real and black people are real and even people of color, whatever the hell that means, even though we all have color, are real.
00:23:15.640And yet whiteness, white people, well, that's imaginary.
00:23:20.360So I guess we're no longer talking about abolishing whiteness, I suppose.
00:23:26.240So, you know, we can't abolish it if it's not real.
00:23:29.360But let's give her the benefit of the doubt.
00:23:31.980Even though she doesn't deserve it, let's do that.
00:23:33.880Then in the same breath, AOC says it's totally real to be German or Italian or English or Polish.
00:24:33.560If progressives actually believe this, then they would consider a group of 10 whites descended from 10 different European countries diverse.
00:24:40.080But of course, they don't, because they believe very much in whiteness.
00:24:43.580And it's the same reason why last week Democrats embarrassed themselves during their questioning of Jeremy Carl,
00:24:51.980who the Trump administration nominated for a post in the State Department.
00:26:43.000I think you're struggling to answer this question, right?
00:26:45.920Because underlying your beliefs is a sentiment that white culture is just simply better.
00:26:55.540Now, notice, again, not to keep, not to harp on the point, but the point has to continue to be made as long as this conversation is going on,
00:27:06.300that you would never, so Chris Murphy is very proud of himself because he's holding someone to account for daring to speak about white culture.
00:29:30.380I would be fine if Jeremy Carl just shot back and said, you don't even, you yourself do not believe in the premise of your question, so I'm not going to entertain it.
00:29:55.640Now, at the same time, credit where it's due, Chris Murphy, despite being a complete moron, is about 100 IQ points more intelligent than AOC, which is to say his IQ is probably about 100.
00:30:06.740And unlike Chris Murphy, AOC is being positioned as a possible presidential candidate for the Democrat Party.
00:30:12.500So it's worth mentioning that the rest of AOC's debut in the international stage was a disaster as well.
00:30:18.700At one point, she talked about the importance of raising taxes so that the government can waste even more money.
00:30:23.240And then a politician in Argentina, which actually implemented a wealth tax a few years ago, informed AOC of the problem with her grand plan.
00:30:31.160So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax or a billionaire's tax?
00:30:39.460I don't think that anyone, and that we don't have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax.
00:30:49.420I think that it needs to be done expeditiously.
00:30:51.380You have the recipe that many Latin American countries applied many, many times, that is some relief in the short term, but end up being, you know, a tragedy for the future.
00:31:05.320It's like public expenditure, huge public expenditure, price control, sometimes wealth tax, and you end up, wealth goes away, and you have just the tax, and you don't have wealth anymore.
00:31:19.480That was something that Peronism did many, many times.
00:31:23.380So all these recipes then creates a cycle, no?
00:31:27.940Then you have this short-term relief, but then goes with inflation, shortage.
00:31:33.100Then you have more poverty, and the cycle goes and goes.
00:31:39.040Yeah, sooner or later, you run out of wealth, and then you're left with a tax.
00:31:43.100And somehow, no one prepared AOC for this moment either in her extensive training sessions.
00:31:52.960For some reason, she was in attendance, even though she's not a government official and shouldn't be representing the United States in any way, especially in a context like this.
00:31:59.920So watch this exchange with the Czech deputy prime minister, just for example.
00:32:04.140What I think Trump is doing in America, I think it is reaction, reaction, reaction for something that, for some policies that really went too far, too far from the regular people, too far from reality.
00:32:23.680So, you know, we saw the cancel culture.
00:32:40.080I think there are two genders, so, but some of us think that there is more than one or more than two, sorry, more than two genders.
00:32:49.800I think there is male and female, and the rest probably is a social construct.
00:32:55.080So, this is something that went too far.
00:32:58.700But does that justify selling out the people of Ukraine who are on the front lines dying to save their freedom and their two genders, if that's what you're worried about?
00:33:17.080No, no, no, no, but seriously, can we let Peter finish, please?
00:33:20.240I have to, I have to, I have to, I have to say one more thing.
00:33:26.460You said that Ukraine fights for our future and for our freedom.
00:33:32.660I think, first, Ukraine fights for Ukraine's future, Ukraine's freedom, Ukraine's sovereignty and independence.
00:33:42.120So, what Hillary is saying here is that even if you disagree with the Democrats on some of the most fundamental questions a society can possibly face,
00:33:50.280questions like, should doctors be able to mutilate people, including children, in order to affirm their delusions,
00:33:56.240then you still need to vote for Democrats because Ukraine needs more money.
00:34:00.840Without exaggeration, that's what she just said.
00:34:02.960And she became angry when she was challenged on it because at some level she must realize how incoherent and unpersuasive it is.
00:34:07.720This is the best Democrats had to offer when it came to an international stage where they had the opportunity to outline their plans for the future if they ever returned to power.
00:34:15.980Message was complete nonsense from top to bottom and it was condescending every step of the way, of course.
00:34:19.920By contrast, as you've probably seen, Marco Rubio was thorough and coherent.
00:34:24.780He made the point that armies don't fight for abstractions.
00:34:27.580He outlined some of the many achievements of Western civilization, which changed the trajectory of the entire world.
00:34:33.400He discussed our shared history with other Western countries.
00:34:36.180He called out the insanity of the climate cult, as well as the disastrous impact of mass migration.
00:34:41.720He described the total impotence of the United Nations, which hasn't resolved a single international crisis in memory.
00:34:46.740And he made it clear that while America is capable of going alone, we prefer to have the support of our Western allies.
00:35:01.420But the roots began here on this continent long before.
00:35:06.380The men who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.
00:35:20.960We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry,
00:35:37.920and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
00:35:46.300We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.
00:35:52.760This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.
00:35:57.720We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization,
00:36:05.820and who together with us are willing and able to defend it.
00:36:10.560And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckon with what is what is necessary to fix it.
00:36:19.200For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline.
00:36:28.020We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history.
00:36:36.880And I am here today to leave it clear that America is charting the path for a new century of prosperity
00:36:44.440and that once again we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends.
00:36:58.020Now the applause which took place throughout the speech, including at the end, is obviously a good science indication that diplomats in Europe understand the stakes of what's happening in their continent.
00:37:13.040But the reality of the situation, frankly, is that the continent is probably too far gone.
00:37:18.220I mean, there's a reason, I mean, there's a new Restore Britain party that's running on a platform of mass deportations, which is unheard of in Europe.
00:37:25.220But at the moment, it looks a bit like Canada's People's Party.
00:37:28.420It probably won't get enough traction.
00:37:29.720The people won't have the will to conduct mass deportations and Europe's decline will probably continue.
00:37:37.220And that's why outside of Munich, the reaction to Rubio's speech was the usual sneering from the left.
00:37:41.740They've concluded that Europe is unsalvageable at this point, not worth salvaging anyway.
00:37:47.120This was the New York Times response, for example.
00:37:49.600Well, Rubio's speech reiterated America's commitment to Europe, but wrapped it in historical and cultural ties that seemingly exclude large sections of the current European population.
00:37:58.480About half the European Union now speaks English as a foreign language, a share that rises to 70 percent for young Europeans.
00:38:04.680Christianity is declining across much of the continent.
00:38:06.940In Europe's three largest economies, Britain, France and Germany, less than half of residents now identify as Christian.
00:38:12.600The ranks of the religiously unaffiliated are growing.
00:38:15.300So Rubio's speech was dumb because he talked about our shared Western culture with Europe, even though the left has spent the last 30 years trying to make Europe completely unrecognizable.
00:38:26.000This is what passes for a gotcha at the New York Times.
00:38:28.420But they're missing the point entirely.
00:38:29.580Marco Rubio did not deny that demographic replacement has been underway in Europe for a very long time.
00:38:35.160What he's saying is that in order to preserve the future of Western civilization, which is to say to preserve the future of civilization in general, we need to reverse what the left has done to Europe.
00:38:44.180And failing that, we need to prevent this incoherent and self-contradictory ideology from taking hold anywhere else.
00:38:52.320No secretary of state, at least since the Cold War, has articulated a vision as important as this.
00:38:56.720And no secretary of state has drawn so sharp a contrast between the forces of civilization on the one hand and the communists who seek only to destroy it on the other.
00:39:05.980That's what the Munich Security Conference was.
00:39:10.960On the one hand, you have Marco Rubio reciting facts, you know, authoritatively.
00:39:16.340On the other hand, you have Democrats ranting incoherently about cowboys and the equator and transgenderism and Ukraine.
00:39:25.680They don't even know what they're saying.
00:39:26.940They don't believe what they're saying.
00:39:27.900And until now, they've gotten away with it because no one has ever articulated a clear, coherent, opposing platform, a platform that unequivocally recognizes the existence and success of white Western culture.
00:39:42.560That's what real history does as well.
00:39:43.800The truth is, there's a reason why Western civilization produced the Enlightenment and democracy and the scientific method and the printing press and the list goes on and on and on.
00:39:53.540There's a reason why out of the four populated continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean, none of them, except Europe, produced a single person who managed to navigate from one side of it to the other.
00:40:04.760Europeans alone had the vision, the courage, the skill, the ingenuity to pull it off.
00:40:09.460They not only traversed the unknown sea, but built empires that stretched across it.
00:40:14.460They don't want you to learn much about the true history of Western civilization, because if you do, you will learn how incredibly exceptional it actually is and has always been.
00:40:25.160And once you do that, once you tell the truth about the exceptionalism of Western civilization, you reduce the left to hysterics.
00:40:32.820Whether it's AOC or the Atlantic, they have no response.
00:40:35.720They flounder and flail in front of the entire world.
00:40:41.320And so with apologies to the intellectuals of the Democrat Party, or rather with no apologies at all, we're going to continue to pursue it until every single one of these liars and charlatans are so humiliated that they never show their faces on the international stage representing the United States of America ever again.
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00:42:20.400Speaking of all this, a cool thing over the weekend for me, this really has no relevance to anyone and no reason for you to care, but I'm a nerd, so I'll brag about it.
00:42:32.320My wife found for me a first edition copy of a book called The North Pole by Robert Peary, and this is his account, a contested account, of being the first person to discover the North Pole.
00:42:44.300He made it to the pole, or thought he did, may have been 40 or 50 miles short.
00:42:51.660In 1909, then he came back and published this account in like 1911.
00:42:56.300So this is a first edition copy from 1911, signed by the Explorer, has an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, which is just incredibly cool.
00:43:05.440And also cool to have a wife who's supportive of, you know, your weird niche interests, which is a very important thing.
00:43:13.120I think it's two important things as a man, especially as you get older.
00:43:16.120And one is that you should develop some niche interests.
00:43:19.980Like you should just become an expert in something weird for no reason, not because you're going to use it.
00:43:26.160It has no utility, but you just learn it anyway.
00:43:29.420And then it's good to have a wife who's supportive of that, or at least, if not supportive, then warmly bemused, affectionately confused, maybe.
00:43:42.940And so for me, you know, the topic is polar exploration, which I find endlessly fascinating.
00:43:48.580But this topic actually, I think, relates to what we discussed in the opening monologue, because this is one of the things that makes Western civilization unique and why it should be celebrated.
00:43:59.420And it's one of the commonalities that you find among Westerners and Western civilization, that Europeans and eventually Americans explored the entire world, mapped and charted every ocean, every populated landmass.
00:44:22.220No one else did it anywhere close to on to this kind of scale.
00:44:27.740And they did it for hundreds of years.
00:44:30.620Like almost everything we know about the world, we know because of Western civilization.
00:44:37.060And then when most everything had been discovered and they got, you know, sort of bored in the 19th and 20th centuries, they decided, well, we might as well go up to the North Pole.
00:44:48.760And we might as well go down to the South Pole in Antarctica.
00:44:52.060And then they went up to the highest peak on Earth, Mount Everest.
00:44:55.620And then they went down to the deepest depths of the ocean, you know, the Mariana Trench.
00:44:59.440And when all that was done, they went up to space.
00:45:04.980And again, this is unique to Western civilization.
00:45:09.500If not for Western civilization, most likely none of this stuff would have ever been done.
00:45:15.080And it's the polar exploration part of that, which I find in some ways the most noble and impressive.
00:45:20.240I mean, it's all extremely noble and impressive.
00:45:21.700But you have to think about the fact that Westerners had already spent centuries exploring and discovering everything.
00:45:29.940And then they decided right on the cusp of the modern age to go throw themselves at the most inhospitable, barren, hostile, dark, frozen wilderness on Earth at both poles, North and South.
00:45:41.640Men were dying by the dozens on every voyage, especially in the early days of polar exploration.
00:45:46.420But they kept doing it and dying, you know, horrific deaths, like starving, freezing, scurvy.
00:45:52.820But they kept doing it until it was done, until the poles of the Earth had been conquered.
00:45:57.980And the poles were there for anyone else, any other civilization to attempt to discover.
00:46:03.980Anyone else could have stepped up to the plate and nobody did.
00:46:06.360Just like so much else of what Western civilization achieved.
00:46:09.180Like anyone else could have tried to do it, but they didn't.
00:47:18.520Daily Wire reports two people were killed and at least three others critically injured after a man who identifies as a woman opened fire at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island.
00:47:27.260Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves confirmed in a Monday evening press conference that Robert Dorgan, who goes by the name Roberta Esposito,
00:47:37.880killed himself after what she said was likely a targeted shooting stemming from a family dispute.
00:47:44.640And there's video circulating of this shooting, which we won't play, very disturbing.
00:47:54.280It's been only a week since the last one.
00:47:56.460So we're talking about multiple times a month now.
00:47:59.220And the thing about this one is that the detail that the left is using to try to mitigate the trans angle actually makes the trans angle worse.
00:48:13.560Because apparently this monster was, along with being a fully committed to the trans bit, apparently he was surgically committed to it also.
00:48:24.560He had had the surgery and this is what, as the report goes on, this is part of what destroyed his marriage, that he decided to, quote unquote, transition, got the surgery.
00:48:36.680And, you know, and then his whole life starts to unravel from there.
00:48:41.760But along with being that committed to it, he also had, quote unquote, far right political views, apparently.
00:48:49.820So aside from believing in the most radical, most insane aspect of left-wing ideology, that would be trans ideology, he had, quote unquote, hard right, far right political views.
00:49:02.300And so this is supposed to be some kind of like, well, now it's a wash, right?
00:49:06.780He was trans, but he was also, quote unquote, right wing.
00:49:13.220But this only proves that a person who has fallen into the clutches of trans ideology is, by definition, automatically a left-wing militant extremist.
00:50:00.220In fact, what's interesting is that this guy, back in 2019, actually has a tweet where he's responding to me in 2019 and agreeing with me about keeping men out of women's sports.
00:50:16.420Now, he since has blocked me and declared that I'm an asshole and, you know, which, as you expect, seven years ago, he was claiming to be one of the, like, reasonable trans people opposed to men and women sports, right?
00:50:32.700So, seven years ago, he was saying, yeah, I'm trans, but I'm not like them.
00:52:53.920So, in his mind, a mind full of rage and envy and, and very dark desires, in his mind, all that's left is to take as many people down with him as he can.
00:53:07.640And, um, and in this case, it was, you know, his thought was to kill his family members who committed the sin of not affirming his delusional lifestyle.
00:53:21.000And, and we're just going to see a lot more of this.
00:53:23.920Unless we start treating trans ideology as the public safety hazard that it is.
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00:55:13.120Uh, there, there's no underground, uh, facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they, they hid it from the president of the United States.
00:55:22.980What was the first question you wanted answered when you became president?
00:56:10.460Like, like this is akin to if you were interviewing a doctor and you asked him if, if, uh, you know, if, if he knows how to cure cancer and the doctor says, Oh yeah, sure.
00:56:30.300Or it's like, if you were interviewing a scientist and the scientist just sort of casually said, Hey, by the way, you know, we, uh, I actually invented time travel.
00:56:36.760And you said, Oh, you did really interesting.
00:57:34.440And, you know, I guarantee Brian's the kind of guy, if you try to have a conversation with him, like there is no conversation.
00:57:39.980He's the kind of guy that just talks about himself the whole time.
00:57:42.140Anything you say just relates back to, it doesn't matter what you say.
00:57:44.920You could say like, oh, I just, uh, you know, I just climbed Mount Everest and is a, oh, you know, funny story.
00:57:50.900Let me tell you what happened to me when I was in the parking lot at Walmart today.
00:57:54.620So, um, this is, this is what we get, but now I'm kind of doing the same thing because actually the more important point here is that Obama said that there are aliens.
00:58:07.420Now he has since put out a statement clarifying this and basically claiming that what he meant to say was that he assumes that aliens are real, but he never saw any evidence of it.
00:58:17.820So he's backing away from the much more definitive and much more interesting claim that he made in the interview.
00:58:24.620Um, now that he's had a chance to put out a statement, like, okay, you know, you had the chance, you had him on the spot and he made the statement.
00:58:32.120You had a chance to have a real conversation about it, but now he's able to put out a statement.
00:58:44.600And you know that I, you know, I'm, I'm a believer.
00:58:48.240I think alien life is almost certainly out there.
00:58:50.380The vastness of the universe does make that nearly inevitable.
00:58:54.180And by the way, I say that not in spite of the fact that I believe in God, but largely because, you know, when you think of the universe as a created structure, to me, it makes the likelihood of other life all the more significant, not less.
00:59:08.820And that brings it back to the analogy that I've used before, which is that, you know, if you walk into an enormous mansion with 20 bedrooms and you see people standing right there in the foyer.
00:59:19.800Does it make sense to assume that those are the only people in the entire house?
00:59:26.120Not even just like the only people in the house right now, but the only people that live there.
01:00:22.380But, you know, also keep in mind that just because the government knows or some people in the government know, it doesn't mean the president would know.
01:00:28.640Actually, I wouldn't like it wouldn't surprise me if there was some indication of not that they're keeping aliens somewhere in a bunker.
01:00:35.700But even if it's not that doesn't necessarily mean the president would be told.
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01:01:49.420Quick thing to briefly mention as the New York Post reports, I just happened to see this as we were getting ready for the show, that Canada, because we're in the final, I think it was the final week of the Olympics, so it wraps up in a couple days.
01:02:04.980Canada is in a big controversy at the Olympics because they're accused of cheating and curling twice.
01:02:11.920And NPR reports that, I saw this headline, that a curling scandal has rocked the Olympics.
01:03:03.400It, you know, it's, it's the way that he, uh, it's the, it's the, it's the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, it's the manner in which he, he did the thing.
01:03:13.820It's like when he pushed it plain as day, plain as day, plain as day, we got him dead to rights.
01:03:18.620And all I can say, and you guys know this.
01:03:20.500And so I don't even need to say it, but I will, that I care deeply about the sport of curling.
01:03:26.380I take immense pride in curling as a sport.
01:03:33.680So it's not like I'm just saying now that I care about it because the Canadians are cheating and it's just a chance to dump on the Canadians.
01:03:38.920It's not like, it's not that at all, because I've always said, if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times that curling is a sport, number one.
01:03:47.400And number two, it belongs in the Olympics.
01:03:48.820I, I wish it was, it should be in both.
01:03:50.480I think it should be in the summer and the, and the winter, frankly.
01:03:54.300And I've said that since day one, since day one of the Olympics.
01:03:58.520And, uh, I'm very productive, protective of the dignity and integrity of the sport of this fine, noble, athletic pursuit that, that certainly you couldn't, you couldn't do unless you were in top.
01:04:12.720Only the top physical specimens are capable of pushing the little puck down the thing.
01:04:17.420And to think that Canadians are now sullying this great sport, making a mockery of it, just enrages me.
01:04:27.700As a longtime curling enthusiast, it enrages me, but, uh, this is what they do.
01:04:34.200This is what the damn Canadians always do.
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01:13:37.100They're going to be accused of, of appropriating self-immolation from marginalized communities.